I Wanted to Be Seen

Check out highlights from a conversation between Sheila Heti and Karl Ove Knausgaard at the Chicago Review of Books that range from the question of whether real literature must “burn” to be written, to why there’s no therapy in My Struggle. Heti pursues cultural differences, and Knausgaard speaks about the Nordic code of collective solidarity he confronted in order to write confessionally and autobiographically. He says, “The most important thing, I think, was that I wanted to be seen.”